With decades of history to cover, not to mention items of news, there are additions being made to this site on almost a daily basis. The best way to keep up with latest additions is to check this page on a regular basis. From stapled, typewritten and hand-collated fanzines to 500,000 print run glossies, you’re entering one man’s journey through the intricacies of publishing, printing and a life-long passion for trying to promote sequential art in all its forms. Welcome aboard!

For music, the 1960s were swinging. But for the nascent era of comics fanzines, it was a time of Banda, Gestetner, Letraset and electronic stencils. Here we’re taking you back to an age before computers, before photocopiers, to the birth of the British comics fanzine and the early works of such industry leaders as Dave Gibbons, Paul Neary. Bryan Talbot and Brian Bolland. Oh, and that Skinn bloke who seems to get in everywhere! Read more…

The heady days of the ’70s, when comics were cancelled if their weekly sales fell below 250,000. And when “hatch, match & dispatch” was a publishing doctrine to maintain a line of outmoded money-spinners on newsagents’ shelves. Read more…